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YouTube (which never seems to respond to e-mail from customers) sent out a cease-and-desist letter to top tech blogger Michael Arrington of TechCrunch:
Buried in my email this evening I found a cease and desist letter from an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, representing their client YouTube. We’ve been accused of a number of [...]

Jihadists do it. Why not gang-bangers? (via Boston Herald/hat tip – Brian Maloney)
One gang in Boston is using a new way to recruit – YouTube.
Luckily, the self-proclaimed Bloods gangbangers from “M.O.B. Charlestown Bricks” look too stupid in their highly rated home movie on the popular Web site to actually attract new members.
“Who red?” one yells.
“Sex, [...]

An unhinged anti-Bush conspiracy piece on YouTube posted by one Mike McIntee claims that the White House doctored the video of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech. Here it is:

It was uploaded the day before the election and has received nearly 200,000 visits and counting, plus countless honors.
The problem is that this “Bush Lied!” propaganda is itself [...]

Lavish praise for YouTube from Time magazine:
It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay [...]

The Washington Times takes up the fight.
The dynamic Brigitte Gabriel talks about YouTube and jihad here.
Ragnar at the Jawa Report is doing battle.
Noel Sheppard reports on YouTube, Google, and the Liberal Bias Virus.
The good news: The conservative YouTubers group now numbers nearly 4,000. The bad: We still are trailing the Bush Sucks group, which tops [...]

…more trouble for conservative users, if Google News’s and Google execs’ campaign donations records are any indication. Here’s the official word on the buyout:
Google Inc. (GOOG) snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the online video revolution. The all-stock acquisition unites [...]

Tom Zeller Jr. at the New York Times saw fit to write about the jihad vs. anti-jihad battle at YouTube today. Not only does he appear to agree that banning “First, They Came” was a bad idea, but he also, unlike his colleague Virginia Heffernan (who inspired my new tagline), manages to cover the story [...]

If you’ve had an anti-jihad video pulled from YouTube, feel free to sport the badge on your site (thanks to AllahPundit).
I like the Jawa Report’s take on a new YouTube logo, too (credit Ragnar). Welcome to AllahTube:

That one’s very appropriate given today’s piece in the NYTimes on the proliferation of jihadi propaganda on YouTube–at the [...]

Back in February, you may remember, I cobbled together a little mini-movie called “First, They Came” inspired by the Mohammed Cartoon riots. It’s a simple slideshow highlighting the victims of Islamic violence over the years. We posted it at YouTube a while ago. No problems. Until last week, when I received this e-mail:

I asked YouTube [...]

You know that VW/terrorist spoof ad that went viral last week?
VW has decided to sue the satirists, whoever they are:
Company spokesman Hartwig von Sass said VW lodged a criminal complaint with prosecutors in Brunswick, Germany, but did not specify a perpetrator. “This is an attack on Volkswagen’s good name,” he said of the ad, [...]